SOURCE: A review of Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, in Christian Century, Vol. 110, No. 9, March 17, 1993, pp. 299-301.

Bryant is professor emeritus of constructive theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton, Minnesota. In the following review, he praises Küng's Judaism for its scholarly merit and its accessibility to the general reader.

Hans Küng, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen, is internationally recognized as a foremost participant in ecumenical dialogue. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Karl Barth at a time when that topic was still unusual for a Roman Catholic scholar. Since then he has continued to foster friendly Catholic-Protestant exchanges around the world. By his critical-historical and systematic studies on the church, the dogma of infallibility and other traditional teachings, he has continued to embody the progressive spirit of Pope John XXIII and Vatican...